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GFF Awards Six Scholarships to Gifted CCHS Students for 2016 Summer Enrichment Opportunities

GFF Awards Six Scholarships to Gifted CCHS Students
for 2016 Summer Enrichment Opportunities

May 22, 2016 | News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — (Carbondale, Illinois; May 17, 2016) The Garwin Family Foundation (GFF) awarded six merit-based sponsorships to enable high-achieving Carbondale Community High School students to attend outstanding summer enrichment programs focused on the arts, sciences, or math.

Josie Reports on Her Immersion in Undergraduate Courses at the University of Chicago

Josie Reports on Her Immersion in Undergraduate Courses at the University of Chicago

Aug 17, 2015 | News

Josie Brown, a 2015 scholarship winner of the Garwin Family Foundation’s CCHS Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in Arts, Sciences and Math, just returned home from the Summer Quarter Undergraduate Offerings for High School Students at the University of...
Kian Reports on His Immersion in Recorded Music at New York University

Kian Reports on His Immersion in Recorded Music at New York University

Aug 17, 2015 | News

Kian Stevens-Winston, a 2015 scholarship winner of the Garwin Family Foundation’s CCHS Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in Arts, Sciences and Math, just returned home from New York University’s Tisch Summer High School Special Program, where he...
Ananth Reports on His Physics Immersion at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes for High School

Ananth Reports on His Physics Immersion
at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes for High School

Aug 3, 2015 | News

Ananth Panchamukhi, a second-time scholarship winner of the Garwin Family Foundation’s CCHS Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in Arts, Sciences and Math, just returned home from the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes High School Program where he...
Eric Reports on His Research Lab Immersion in the Missouri S&T Summer Research Academy

Eric Reports on His Research Lab Immersion in the
Missouri S&T Summer Research Academy

Jul 29, 2015 | News

Eric Dollinger, one of the 2015 scholarship recipients of the Garwin Family Foundation’s CCHS Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in Arts, Sciences and Math, recently returned home from the Summer Research Academy at Missouri Science and Technology...
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Garwin Family Foundation

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  • Celebrating GFF alumni who have recently graduated from high school.
  • Fourteen Southern Illinois High School Students Earn Garwin Family Foundation Scholarships for Summer 2025 Enrichment Opportunities
  • Bill Xu studies “Mathematical Elements of AI” at the Harvard University Pre-Summer Camp.
  • Seth Daniels attends the Research Development Institute at Washington University College of Arts & Sciences Pre-College Program.
  • Alexei Kadyrov studies Algebra 2.5 at Awesome Math.
  • Evan Wiggs attends “Physics of the Stars” at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.
  • Jordan Johnson attends “From Physics Through Biology to Medicine” at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

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Words of Wisdom

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci
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